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Zimmerman’s best friend pens book, goes on Dr. Phil
The Miami Herald ^ | Sept 11, 2012 | Frances Robles

Posted on 09/11/2012 4:09:02 PM PDT by Uncle Chip

The federal air marshal who took George Zimmerman in after he shot Trayvon Martin has written a book about his controversial friend, and appeared on a national TV show Tuesday to say Zimmerman was a peaceful, loving — and innocent — man.

Mark Osterman, 44, is the friend who Zimmerman’s wife Shellie first called for help on Feb. 26, when her husband, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, shot an unarmed teenager. Osterman, a former Seminole County sheriff’s deputy, went to the scene, accompanied Zimmerman to his police interrogations and took the couple in for more than a month while they were vilified in the national media.

Osterman and his wife, Sondra, appeared Tuesday on the Dr. Phil TV show to plug their new book, Defending our Friend: The Most Hated Man in America. The show’s host, psychologist Phillip McGraw, hammered Osterman with questions, repeatedly suggesting Zimmerman was a “Rambo” who was to blame because he violated the basic premise of neighborhood watch programs by carrying a gun and getting out of his vehicle to track a suspect.

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To: Emperor Palpatine

I think you’ve had too many “good stiff drinks”. Either that or you just always post stupid things. I think you should go to jail just for that.


21 posted on 09/11/2012 5:01:08 PM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: Uncle Chip

I just listened ( again ) to the 911 tape. If the prosecution is hanging their case on evidence like that then were all in trouble.


22 posted on 09/11/2012 5:19:59 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Uncle Slayton

He had no business being a neighborhood busybody.

these vigilante groupos need disbanded. Security is an INDIVIDUAL matter, not a collective one.

I have nothing but contempt for these groups and the type of people, (authoritarian statists and cop wannabes), they attract.

Like I said, I wouldn’t lift a finger to help one of the dumb yinzers that live around me. And I defy anyone to ever stop ME, follow ME, or question ME for no reason.

Defending his neighbors my eye. He was being a meddler.


23 posted on 09/11/2012 5:36:01 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: justlurking

No, but if they get him for that I won’t complain.


24 posted on 09/11/2012 5:37:09 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Uncle Chip

That’ll teach them to try and defend the indefensible.


25 posted on 09/11/2012 5:38:46 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Misterioso

Maybe you should go stick your head in the toilet and flush it, wise guy.


26 posted on 09/11/2012 5:40:28 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Pollster1

Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened.

All he had to do was listen.


27 posted on 09/11/2012 5:43:24 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Put the bottle down and go to bed —


28 posted on 09/11/2012 5:45:00 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Pollster1

Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened.

All he had to do was listen.


29 posted on 09/11/2012 5:52:50 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a couple of good stiff drinks. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
So you're naive enough to swallow the Crumped up false narrative (profiled, pursued, and killed an unarmed kid only carrying IT and skillets). It's been a while since I've helped out George. Time to send him another couple hundred.
30 posted on 09/11/2012 5:56:43 PM PDT by ironman
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To: beandog

The tagline comes from Jimmy Stewart in “Its a Wonderful Life”

And no, I just hate vigilantes, HOA’s NW’s and neighborhood busybodies.

people need to mind their own damn business.

If GZ had done that, he wouldn’t have gotten his head bashed and a kid wouldn’t be dead.

Its you authoritarian statists control “watch everyone” folks who are the antithesis of American individualism.


31 posted on 09/11/2012 5:58:25 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a couple of good stiff drinks. How 'bout you?)
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To: ironman

No, I dislike Zimmerman because he was a Neighborhood Watch Nazi.

If it were up to me, I’d liquidate NW’s and HOA’s.

Bunch of petty block watch Hitlers.


32 posted on 09/11/2012 6:03:00 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a couple of good stiff drinks. How 'bout you?)
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To: ironman

He’s been hitting the sauce.


33 posted on 09/11/2012 6:07:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened. All he had to do was listen.

1. He was told he didn't have to follow, which is different from being told to get into his truck.

2. Even if he had disobeyed a dispatch clerk, that would not change the fact that his life appears to have been in immediate danger when he shot the thug who was beating him up.

3. While the fight may have been avoidable, that is not the question before the court. The court is there to rule on whether Zimmerman committed a specific criminal act - murder - not whether he showed poor judgement in some manner that night.

34 posted on 09/11/2012 6:09:40 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened.

If you had any idea what you are talking about you would know he did try to do just that>

BullS#!+ on your premise. I am damn glad my neighbors watch out for things when I am not here.

35 posted on 09/11/2012 6:10:06 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Uncle Chip

I’ve been known to hit the sauce before posting. I wonder if I sounded like that?


36 posted on 09/11/2012 6:14:02 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Uncle Chip

I’ve been known to hit the sauce before posting. I wonder if I sounded like that?


37 posted on 09/11/2012 6:14:42 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Since you have a brain, even before the befuddling effects of alcohol, I strongly doubt it.


38 posted on 09/11/2012 6:16:38 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ironman

A fool and his money...


39 posted on 09/11/2012 6:19:50 PM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

911 operators are NOT law enforcement officers, they are only there to dispatch emergency calls. They are not at the scene, and wouldn’t have any idea what he was facing.


40 posted on 09/11/2012 6:22:48 PM PDT by hawkeye101 (Ron Paul attacked every Republican in the 2012 race EXCEPT for Mitt Romney.)
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